February 24, 2010
- Passengers vote for O’Leary and Stelios to settle their differences
over Easyjet’s high fares and suppressed punctuality stats. Ryanair, on
Tuesday confirmed that over 10,000 passengers, so far, have voted for
Ryanair and Easyjet to settle their differences with a Sumo bout in
Trafalgar Sq, closely followed by a drag-race which could see the
airline chiefs donning high-heels and fishnets.

Sir Stelios
Haji-Ioannou who prefers to be known as Stelios is a serial entrepreneur
best known for creating EasyJet in 1995 at the age of 28. In 2000, he
floated EasyJet on the London Stock Exchange and the company now has
grown into one of Europe's leading
airlines with 170 aircraft flying over 400 routes between 103 airports
in 26 countries. Approximately 45 million people a year fly with EasyJet,
enjoying more value for less. Stelios remains the biggest single
shareholder of EasyJet PLC and a non-executive director.

Ryanair is an
Irish low cost airline with its headquarters at
Dublin Airport, Ireland,
and with primary operational bases at DublinAirport and LondonStanstedAirport. Ryanair operates
over 200 Boeing 737-800 aircraft on over 1000 routes across Europe and Morocco from its
40 bases. The airline has been characterised by rapid expansion, a
result of the deregulation of the air industry in
Europe
in 1997 and the success of its low cost business model. Ryanair is the
largest airline in Europe in terms of
passenger numbers and the largest in the world in terms of international
passenger numbers.

In London to
promote its Stelios Sumo bout, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, said: “Ryanair’s
passengers can log on to their website to vote on which challenge they
would like me to beat Stelios at in order to settle this dispute over
Easyjet’s high fares and missing punctuality figures. Let the winner
take the bragging rights, with the loser agreeing to shut up.The top six suggestions are available on ryanair.com now for
passengers to vote on. Our online poll will close on Friday 26th
February next and the winning suggestion will be revealed shortly
after".

“Stelios might be
bigger than me, but even in a Sumo bout he’ll never catch me, because
Easyjet can’t beat Ryanair’s punctuality, can’t beat our much lower
fares and can’t beat boss either.

Owner Of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou who prefers to be known as
Stelios

Ryanair revealed
the current favorites with passengers as the poll reaches it’s midway
point and urged passengers to continue to vote for their favorite on its
website before Friday next (February 26th).

The
suggestions which Ryanair passengers can vote on are:

1. 25% - Sumo
wrestling bout (Stelios to provide the nappies)

2. 24% - Drag race
(dressed in high-heels and fishnets),

3. 20% - “Chariots
of Fire” race around Trafalgar Sq,

4. 15% - Mud
wrestling contest,

5. 9% -
Arm-wrestling match,

6. 7% - Wheelbarrow
race around Trafalgar Sq.

“It’s time
for Easyjet to stop hiding the truth and start publishing the facts of
their lousy punctuality again on their website.”